Controlling even the schools
The latest tense events in Javakhk are due to foreign and domestic interference, says analyst of the "Mitk" analytical center from Javakhk Vahe Sargsyan.
"The other factor is Georgia's policy. Georgia is doing everything it can to not let Javakhk become organized, or a factor. As a result, Javakhk is currently being used by different interested powers like Russia and Georgia and Javakhk Armenians are facing-off against each other," told "A1+" Vahe Sargsyan.
The Candidate of History, who periodically conducts studies on this topic, says that there shouldn't be any artificial evaluations, especially regarding the news on the latest arrests. According to him, there are also deep-rooted reasons for the latest developments in the council of the Samtskhe-Javakhe Armenian non-governmental organizations.
"It seems as though the few activists remaining in Javakhk learned a lesson from the incident connected to Vahagn Chakhalyan. If a person can be sentenced for 10 years for being an activist, who would try to be an activist?" said Vahe Sargsyan adding that in his opinion, Chakhalyan's case will be reconsidered soon. He also mentions that the names and foreseen arrests that were dispersed recently are connected to the conflicts between the authorities and the Armenian activists.
"The people are not that active. In this post-independence period, the people have come to realize that nobody cares about them. Armenia's state policy on Georgia is based on friendly ties and there is no desire to ruin those ties, yet Javakhk has become a factor for all powers," says Vahe Sargsyan. As proof of this, Sargsyan said how the Georgian Interior Ministry officials control everything, even schools and culture homes.
"Recently, a group of historians from Armenia visited Akhalkalak and left some books in the three Armenian schools in the city. As one of the D. Demirchyan School said, seven minutes after the historians left security officials entered the school, asked questions about the people who came, took the books without any explanation and left. They have not returned any book to date," said Vahe Sargsyan.
